NEW RICHMOND, Wis. (Friday and Saturday)
Rick Aukland, taking advantage of polesitter Bill Frye's bobble in Turn
4, took the lead with two laps to go and held on for a $30,000 victory in
the USA National 100 at Cedar Lake Speedway.

"Man, this is just awesome," said Aukland, who his second career
Hav-A-Tampa event and won the USA National 100 for the second time. "We
outran the best in the business out there tonight and it means a lot for
us to win here in front of this crowd."

Donnie Moran, who started on the last row using a provisional spot,
rallied to finish second ahead of Frye. Rick Eckert, who led the first 62
laps, finished fourth ahead of Wendell Wallace. Johnny Virden, Clint
Smith, Scott Bloomquist, Dale McDowell and Jimmy Mars finished sixth
through 10th on the 3/8-mile oval just east of the Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Minn., metroplex.

Series points leader Billy Moyer blew a motor on the 61st lap and
finished 21st, allowing Wallace to trim the points lead to just 48 points
with three series events remaining.

Eckert, starting outside the second row, jumped into the early lead with
Wallace and Frye giving chase. Eckert held on through the cautionless
first half of the race while Bloomquist moved into contention from his
10th-row starting spot.

After racing cleanly side-by-side to get past Frye, Bloomquist found
himself in position to pass Eckert on the 63rd lap, taking advantage of
the restart after the race's first caution. Bloomquist led for 20 laps
but blew a left-rear tire, handing the lead to Aukland on lap 83. Aukland
led Eckert, Frye, Wallace and Moran with fewer than 20 circuits remaining.

Frye, working the high side, tracked down Aukland and took the lead on
the 92nd lap and appeared to be headed to victory. But with just more
than two laps remaining, Frye bobbled in lapped traffic in Turn 4,
allowing Aukland and Moran to get past.

For Aukland, it was his second victory of the year worth at least
$30,000. The driver from Fargo, N.D., also has big-race victories this
year in the Show-Me 100 at West Plains, Mo. ($30,000), the Thunder Ridge
100 in Prestonsburg, Ky. ($15,000) and the Jackson 100 in Brownstown,
Ind. ($10,000 to win).

Aukland's only other Hav-A-Tampa victory came in the SuperNationals at
West Plains, Mo., in 1995, a win worth $15,000. His average winning purse
on the Hav-A-Tampa circuit is more than $22,000.

NOTES: Scott Bloomquist came up light at the scales after winning the
third heat, and rallied from the last row of his consolation race to make
the feature .... security was called to the scales after he came up light
Friday night .... Wendell Wallace won the second heat after a three-wide
battle with Lance Matthees and Jimmy Mars .... rain delayed Saturday
night's consolation races until 9 p.m. .... a drizzle hung in the air
through most of the feature, causing the track to be extra-tacky ....
Skip Arp and Donnie Moran took provisional starting spots for the feature
.... Terry Phillips was black-flagged after bringing out cautions in the
feature on laps 73 and 75 .... Rick Eckert got a $1,000 bonus with a spin
of the St. Croix Casino wheel .... Tom Nesbitt drove Ray Cook's backup
car .... Bart Hartman had a DNF in the first heat and didn't reappear the
rest of the weekend .... the 50-50 winner got $3,800 .... the race was
formerly sanctioned by United Midwestern Promoters.